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Welcome! She/they Wanna be Artist/Animtor with minmal experience im litteraly just a silly little fella

[yourlocaleldritchbitch]

mandatory about me post

Name: Moth

internet minor (16)

College and Highschool bitch

Please send asks and art/writing requests

Scaredy cat Shaniac

Shyan shipper

diagnosed ADD and anxiety

will info dump about random stuff

Will give podcast recommendations

bi/ace

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favorites include:

favorite season: fall

my interests: drawing, photography, stargazing, and reading horror books

favorite animals: seal, moth (I like bugs 🧡), raccoon, and opossum

my favorite colors are orange and beige

🎶favorite music artists: Mother Mother, Lemon Demon, Tally Hall, AJR, Jack Wyndham, TV Girl, The Killers, Alex G, and The B-52’s🎹

🎶favorite songs: Devil by Arms Akimbo, Time Moves Slow by BADBADNOTGOOD, Dear Pet Rock by tv room, Natalie Wood by tv girl, Nope Your Too Late I Already Died by Wifiskeleton, and Hero by Meego🎸

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⭐️favorite games: Portal/Portal 2, Minecraft, Sam and Max, Cuphead, and Stardew Valley ⭐️

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DNI IF YOU ARE:

🛑Homophobic, racist, a pedophile, a pro shipper, an ice supporter, an AI supporter, a creep in general, watcher entertainment haters, and anything else along these lines🛑

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current fics:

current WIPs:

shyan titanic au:

Chapter 1

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History, science, and dinosaur goober 🤓 (will info dump facts about this if asked)

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field of work I’m considering pursuing:

puppeteer, psychologist, history professor, forensic anthropologist, movie maker/actor

[lupineshieldmaiden]

saturniidae pngs ˚ ༘ ೀ⋆｡˚

send requests .ᐟ.ᐟ જ⁀➴ ✉

[daeranilen]

"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

[daeranilen]

Apparently people are rediscovering this post somehow and I think that’s pretty cool! Having experienced similar violations of trust in my youth, this is an important issue to me, so I want to add my personal story:

Around age 13, I tried to express to my mother that I thought I might have clinical depression, and she snapped at me “not to joke about things like that.” I stopped telling my mother when I felt depressed.

Around age 15, I caught my mother reading my diary. She confessed that any time she saw me write in my diary, she would sneak into my room and read it, because I only wrote when I was upset. I stopped keeping a diary.

Around age 18, I had an emotional breakdown while on vacation because I didn’t want to go to college. I ended up seeing a therapist for - surprise surprise - depression.

Around age 21, I spoke on this panel with my mother in the audience, and afterwards I mentioned the diary incident to her with respect to this particular Q&A. Her eyes welled up, and she said, “You know I read those because I was worried you were depressed and going to hurt yourself, right?”

TL;DR: When you invade your child’s privacy, you communicate three things:

You do not respect their rights as an individual.

You do not trust them to navigate problems or seek help on their own.

You probably haven’t been listening to them.

Information about almost every issue that you think you have to snoop for can probably be obtained by communicating with and listening to your child.

[daeranilen]

Part of me is really excited to see that the original post got 200 notes because holy crap 200 notes, and part of me is really saddened that something so negative has resonated with so many people.

[autumngracy]

“200 notes”

[SpongeBob Narrator voice] Ten Years Later

[mysweetoddbird]

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

[stackslip]

we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback

[starlightxraven]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

[appalachian-werewolf]

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

[mrsjdavis]

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

[llama-sidekick]

Me, participating in the tumblr sexymen poll even tho i am ace af and dont even really know what sexy is supposed to feel like to me: this one, i like his vibe

[flintyfae]

zine i made about being a boring queer!

nothing more natural than changing and evolving and learning and discovering things about yourself.

happy pride from this fat trans butch

[something-elsee]

[ouroborosorder]

Shoutouts to the time I had a severe fever and took benedryl and wanted to listen to feel good inc but couldn’t remember the name. I think I was crying over this

[barfingblood]

Simon Pegg’s ability to look like the saddest, wettest, most pathetickest man in existence both confounds and amuses me

[martinblackwoodmaxxer]

I have literally only just realised that the phrase “one foot in front of the other” just means to walk normally. I always thought it meant one foot physically in front of the other, like walking a tightrope. This is just as bad as when I discovered that rolling your eyes isn’t actually moving them in a circle.

[ashishere0w0]

I should draw something (doesn’t draw) I should draw something (doesn’t draw) I should draw something (doesn’t draw) I should draw something (doesn’t draw) I should draw something (doesn’t draw)

[cosmicretreat]

[andy-knightley]

@edgarwright: ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ was released in North America 14 years ago today. Here’s myself, @friedgold & Pegg in Chicago during the summer of ‘04. And me in LA on weekend of release. (NB: In the Chicago audience was one @kumailn)

[willtherebesandwiches-blog]

99% of the time when Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are being overly affectionate, it just seems like two bros fucking around:

But every once in a while, they do a thing and they look like a legit couple:

Like ‘beating out Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka as a gay power couple’-ness levels. 

[coveredwithsnow]

Simon and Nick playing around with props on the set of Hot Fuzz.